Base of the neck,that is where our guns pattern. Most guys in excitement shoot high on the gobblers because of not getting there head down against the stock!
I have my gun set up to pattern 6 inches high. I aim for where the skin and feathers meat. Face gets smashed, and very few pellets in the breast. I don't like wasting any meat.
Right underneath the chin where the waddles are. My guns are all sighted in to hit dead on poa if not just a tad high. Keeps the pattern out of the body if at all possible because well...I like to eat turkey, not just shoot em...
I go right for the neck where the feathers start. When I first started hunting, I always knew to shoot them in the head. Well it was probably the biggest turkey I have ever seen came running in one morning, and I shot over him all 3 shots. I aimed right for the top of the head.
If you aim where feathers meet the neck I see no reason you should be ruining meat, a few bb's never hurt anyone! That being said I also aim for where feathers and flesh meet.
I aim at the top of the head....or eyeball.... It only takes the bottom part of a dense pattern to take down a gobbler. Aiming low will put pellets in the breast of the gobbler.
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